Why doesn’t it rain at the South Pole and will global warming change that?

nternational flags at the ceremonial south pole (Photo: Alex Kiefer/AAD)
January 9, 2024
Tyler Fisher

Tyler Fisher

Tyler Fisher is a fourth year University of South Australia student studying journalism. Tyler is an intern in the Cosmos newsroom.

It doesn’t rain at the South Pole. Why not? Will global warming change that?
This question from a Cosmos reader was a task for The Science Detectives.

Cosmos journalism intern Tyler Fisher was asked to investigate, to find out what’s going on.

In this episode of our podcast series Science Detectives, we get to the hard, cold facts.

Antarctica. photographed by satellite MODIS observations of polar sea ice and combined with observations by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s AVHRR sensor€’the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer. 2006…
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